Aşık Veysel who had been blind since seven years old, had got the favorable environment to improve poesy ability that he had already have in his nature, in Cem rite and minstrel-poet meetings in Şarkışla locality. Aşık Veysel whose artist personality was shaped in Alawite- Bektahsi tradition is based upon Central Asia, Ahmet Yesevi association, meditated upon metaphysic world and put in to words sufistic, mystic inspirations clearly in Turkish. He was illiterate like the prophet Muhammed and Yunus Emre. Treating in poetry by confidence and properly the subjects like sufism and unity of existence cause heated debates by an illiterate minstrel, is the evidence of his artist personality as well as having comprehensive knowledge of the subject. Also it is the sign of interaction and communication between minstrel and community about continuation of sufistic perception and tradition. Researchers are indicated that the root of Aşık Veysel's poem tree is based on metaphysic (beyond physics), mysticism, this tree's trunk is composed of love poems, this tree's branches are composed of social titled poems. In this article, ıt is focused on mysticism which is the worth of the root in his poems, this accumulation of the minstrel was obtained from which resources, in which environment and especially his poems that reflect on "unity of existence" approach in mysticsm. Mysticism in Asık Veysel's poems shows up itself both showing respect of Sufi elders like Mevlana and Hacı Bektas Veli and in his poems that stating the idea of "the uniqueness of existence". "Ne sen var ne ben var bir tane Gaffar" is the most typical poem in these poems. The theory of manifestation and this insight that mentioned
Âşık Veysel, folk poet, sufism, unity of existence
| Author : | Şahin KÖKTÜRK |
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| Number of pages: | 749-758 |
| DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.7118 |
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